drum set: resonance, melodic phrases and repetition

Maria Moles

e fishpool (efp) is a Yuin artist based across Budawang and Walbanja Country. Their work maps processes of unlearning and (re)learning identity through sampling sound, dialect and field recordings.

CS + Kreme are Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel – two Australians who record slow, hallucinatory experimental music. There was a meeting of minds at an intrepid friend's day-party in Melbourne a few years back, then after one alchemic studio jam – the rest was history.

Over the past few years, CS + Kreme have released a string of disparate records on DIY labels which share their ethos: Total Stasis, Wichelroede and the Trilogy Tapes. The latter collaborations with Will Bankhead have been the most prolific, his label becoming an unofficial home away from home for the duo. Issuing EPs Cold Shoulder in 2018, howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought, as well as the Snoopy LP to critical acclaim in 2020.

Snoopy is their most comprehensive body of work to date. It connected deeply with people during the pandemic and polled high in various end of year lists with prominent electronic musical outlets such as Resident Advisor, XLR8R, Crack Magazine and Boomkat who dubbed it: "An absolute treasure of an album - a quietly seductive, deeply romantic and stealthily addictive long-player in the most classic, enduring sense."

Transcending style and space, CS + Kreme don't follow a philosophy with making music, what they do is more fluid. Drawn like moths to the liminal state, they write slow and meditative "horizontal-music" which takes in heavy dub processing, sweeping post-punk and chamber music soundscapes, anchored around Standish's leftfield bass guitar. 

In Karmel's words, "Inherently, there are influences that come through without us even realising. It's kind of that cliche where people put their two cents forward for what our influences are, but I don't think we've set out to be like anyone or anything."

Both seasoned musicians, Standish and Karmel together hold a rich history of collaborations in successful experimental groups such as: F ingers, Bum Creek, Standish/Carlyon and Devastations, to name a few. Most recently they have collaborated with composer James Rushford who played portative organ on Snoopy and cellist Judith Hamann who contributed to "April Fools Day", off howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought.

In early 2020 CS + Kreme travelled to the UK for their first overseas performances together at The White Hotel in Manchester and a Trilogy Tapes showcase in London. They are currently writing the follow up to Snoopy and developing commissions for several European festivals, including Rewire (NL) and Berliner Festspiel (DE).

CS + Kreme are Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel – two Australians who record slow, hallucinatory experimental music. There was a meeting of minds at an intrepid friend's day-party in Melbourne a few years back, then after one alchemic studio jam – the rest was history.

CS + Kreme

(re)Reigniting our Ritual Community Music series, Liquid Architecture presents rare performances by CS + Kreme, with Maria Moles and efp at Meat Market Pavilion.

Circling bodies.
Hallucinatory sounds.
Luxury systems.

CS + Kreme is Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel's deeply romantic and stealthily addictive music characterised by heavy dub processing and sweeping patterns of melody and noise, anchored by Standish’s dexterous bass and Karmel’s skewiff electronics. You will know last year’s wildly/widely loved Snoopy LP on Trilogy Tapes. What you won't know is the as-yet-unheard masterpiece to come. Expect a taste on the night. Self-described ‘horizontal-music’.

Maria Moles uses drums, percussion, electronics and everyday objects to weave hypnotic, layered webs of sound that pulse freely while slowly transforming with subtle textures and movements. One of the finest and most imaginative musicians in the Melbourne experimental scene, Moles has performed everywhere and with everyone, but it is her solo performances that are, arguably, the most powerful expression of her work.

efp is the performance moniker of Yuin artist and musician E Fishpool, whose highly crafted compositions utilising synthesised soundscapes, liminal vocals and field recordings, are at once intensely expressive and also beautifully open-ended in their abstraction. Grounded in First Nations oral and sonic pedagogies, and the unbreakable obligation to listen to land and Country, efp's work communicates across many layers, inviting the listener into complex worlds of sound and knowledge.
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Free entry for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
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Li(quid)stening
Architecture

CS + Kreme, Maria Moles, efp

Featuring:

Free entry for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

CS + Kreme, Maria Moles, efp

Featuring:

Free entry for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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